Air pollution: London mayor backs new inquest into girl's asthma death

Khan writes to attorney general over girl who died during spikes in nitrogen dioxide

The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has written to the attorney general asking him to back a new inquest into the death of a nine-year-old girl whose severe asthma attacks coincided with spikes in air pollution.

The mother of Ella Kissi-Debrah has fought a long campaign to highlight the role she believes illegal air pollution played in her daughter’s death in 2013.

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